Vinyasa is a Sanskrit word, the spirit of which is ‘fluidity in motion’.  In Vinyasa yoga movement is linked with the breath in a flowing, creative sequence of body postures.  Sacred rhythms, meditative riffs and world beat music enhance the flow and rhythm of the class, effectively allowing one to cultivate internal awareness, create heat and joy and explore the energizing and uplifting effects of this practice.  Move and be fluid.  Come and go with the flow!

Bard is an Ashtanga and Vinyasa yoga practitioner and teacher living in Sun Valley.  Bard is also a Licensed Acupuncturist and Master of Traditional Oriental Medicine.

Paula  Child has been teaching in the Wood River Valley for three years.  She completed The Sacred Cow Yoga Teacher Training Program at the 200 hour level and the ParaYoga Master Training with Rod Stryker. She is a registered teacher at the 500 hour level. Paula inspires a depth of feeling and focus by aiding students in revealing awareness that lies just below the surface.  Through her teaching it is her intent to facilitate students to find happiness by following their own expression of the infinite.

Lee Holden is an internationally known instructor in meditation, tai chi, and qi gong, lecturing and teaching workshops in the United States, Europe, and Asia. 
 
An accomplished athlete with a childhood fascination for martial arts, Holden discovered the practice of qi gong in conjunction with efforts to achieve peak sports performance. As a varsity soccer player at Berkeley, Lee injured his back and was told he would never play soccer again. Turning to qi gong, Holden was back on the soccer field within a month.

Holden currently teaches at the Five Branches Institute for Chinese Medicine and the Twin Lakes College of Massage and is the founder of Pacific Healing Tao.  He also works as a stress management consultant to many corporations in Silicon Valley. Holden’s video Tai Chi for Fitness has been featured on television shows and numerous magazine articles.

Discover the important relationship between centered play and our social health and well being. Express, explore, extend, and truly exercise yourself using energetic GYROKINESIS(r). From this place of grounding and balance, connect into your body and out into your community. Appropriate for anyone to attend.

Discover the important relationship between centered play and our social health and well being. Express, explore, extend, and truly exercise yourself using energetic GYROKINESIS(r). From this place of grounding and balance, connect into your body and out into your community. Appropriate for anyone to attend.

Your habits of movement may be preventing you from being all that you can be. The Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education is a moving meditation that uses gentle movement and directed attention to enhance your life. Without knowing how it is that you move, you can’t change the habit that is preventing you from attaining ease and comfort. According to founder Moshe Feldenkrais, “If you don’t know what you are doing, you can’t do what you want.” The class consists of simple, guided movements that seem to miraculously change the way you feel and sense your body. As you do them, you will learn how to trust your body to give you what you need. The Feldenkrais Method® promises to “make the impossible, possible; the possible, easy; and the easy, elegant.” 

In this introduction, you will experience awareness practices such as body scan, focused breathing, imagery, and simple movements done while sitting in chairs or standing.  This sampler of meditative tools help to steady the mind, relax the body, and can be done anywhere and anytime.

Debra Mulnick  RN,  E-RYT has been a nurse for 30 years, and has been teaching yoga for the past 18 years.   Debra offers yoga programs for patients through MSTI/St. Luke's Regional Medical Center in Boise where she has taught yoga for people living with cancer for the past 10 years.   She teaches also ongoing weekly yoga classes in Boise at the Muse Yoga studio.